Updated KVM Image Backup Script for NetWorker
In November last year I posted a script and descriptions for use to allow NetWorker to backup RedHat/CentOS KVM images…
Category: Architecture
Basics – Change and Growth
I assume you’ve heard of the wheat and the chessboard problem. It often gets presented as part of the history of chess, or as…
10 from 10: 10 years of blogging, 10 years of epic data protection changes
Some blogging history On 25 January 2009, I published the first article on what was then the NetWorker Blog: How…
Hello, 2019
Hello, and welcome to 2019. I’m still getting my head around that. It still seems that it was only a…
Staging Systems vs Backup Systems
Do you want a backup system, or a staging system? This might seem like an odd question, but I’m asking…
Basics – Space Reclamation in Deduplication Storage
Introduction When you’re writing backups to tape, capacity reclamation is pretty straight forward (unless you’re using an archive product that…
Data Protection Central 18.1
In the huge round of updates in June/July, one of the products you should be using more frequently, Data Protection…
Architectural Considerations – To Storage Node or Not to Storage Node?
As environments scale, so too has NetWorker grown in its ability to scale. The latest version of NetWorker can scale…
Long Term Retention: Convenient Now, or Later?
“Oxford economics historian Avner Offer believes that we’re hopelessly myopic. When left to our own devices, we’ll choose what’s nice…
Why cheaper isn’t cheapest, or best
I want to have a bit of a chat in this post about cheap. In particular, I want to get two…